10-Apr-2007

Welcome to my Koolies

The year was 1986 my husband came home to tell
me of a most unusual dog, that had crawled under the truck that he had been
fixing and stayed with him all day, Ron said he was captured by its one blue
eye. nine years from that day we searched, researched, and finally
purchased our first Koolie. Then we researched lots more, years
on and we are still researching.

Please enjoy your visit with my
Koolies as we enjoy owning and unraveling the mystery of preserving and
protecting them.
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Dot and Rockie's litter

Tjukurpa Kool Cloud

Tjukurpa Kool Copper (Wheatley)

Tjukurpa Kool Chance

Tjukurpa Kool Pepper & Toshi

Tjukurpa Kool Toshi 17-12-03 > 21-9-04

Tjukurpa Kool Narla

Tjukurpa Kool Charm

Tjukurpa Kool Breeze

Tjukurpa Kool Seal

Tjukurpa Kool Jet Stream

Tjukurpa Kool Panda

Tjukurpa Kool Patch

Tjukurpa Kool Silla

Silla's first litter born 17-4-04

Silla's second litter

Tjukurpa Kool Grizzley (Spike)

Tjukurpa Kool Speckie

Tjukurpa Kool Blue

Tjukurpa Kool Storm

Tjukurpa Kool Kimba (Sheba)

Tjukurpa Kool Dusty

Tjukurpa Kool Dusty's litter. 2002

Tjukurpa Kool Indi

Tjukurpa Kool Mack

Snowy our big boy

Tjukurpa Kool Snowy

Tjukurpa Kool Harry (Sooty)

Misty at five weeks

Tjukurpa Kool Phoenix

Tjukurpa Kool Dot

Tjukurpa Kool Tess 3 weeks

Tjukurpa Kool Titch 5 weeks

Tjukurpa Kool Titch 16 weeks

Born from 7:45am till 10:00am on the 17-Dec-2003

Seven beautiful babies, five girls and two boys. Dot had eight in all but two girls died, one was still born and the other died a day later, both were very small, one was a solid red, the other a red merle. No whites in this litter, we are all very happy with their progress, they are very healthy and active. Dot is a good and caring mother, and required very little help from me.

Cloud is from Dots second litter, at eight weeks she shows great confidence, absorbs everthing, is independant but compliant and very willing to obey, she comes, sits, drops, knows her bed, gets off when asked, drops and stands to be examined and she is still 8 weeks, she watches you all the time and is just enjoyable to be around. DNA has prooven that Clouds father is Tjukurpa Kool Sam all other pups from this litter were sired by Tjukurpa Kool Rocky

Copper now named Wheatley by her new owners may grow up to be a quaratine sniffer dog, one of her owners works for quarantine and was very impressed with Wheatley's inteligence and sense of smell. Wheatley is currently enrolled in Obedeince and doing very well. We will continue to record her progress as with all Tjukurpa Koolie's, we wish them all the best for the future.

Chance lives in NSW where he has started a new blood line for Michell who has 2 other Koolie's and a passion for herding. Chance is showing great strength in sheep work, and is now competing successfully in yard trials. We look forward to continuing to record his progress.

Pepper is in front and has gone to QLD to commence a new line for Brad & Michelle Smith of Brookfield, Brad & Michelle also have a second older Tjukurpa blue merle Girl, Stormy, we hope to breed with her in the future.

Both girls have bonded well and the family has three children who just adore them.

Sadly Pepper was tragically lost when she became entangled in an old vine and strangled herself, Tjukurpa joins her family in mourning her loss, we hope that when Storm is eventually bred in the future that they can find solace in one of her pups.

Toshi was the cuddle bear of the litter, many requested Toshi because he had the most beautiful nature. But we kept him because Toshi had a slight undershot jaw, it in no way affected him, but we had been informed that it could be corrected within 12 months, so we decided to keep him to see if he would gain a scissor bite. We would like to thank all the lovely people who were willing to take and record Toshi's progress for us, but we felt that it was our obligation as the breeders and there were no guarentees that it would work. Not that it stopped anyone from wanting him. Unfortunatly Toshi's parrot mouth was permanent so his home was with us, he kept my feet warm at night.

At the age of 7 months Toshi was diagnosed with Kidney Renal Failure, at 9 months he succumb to his illness and we lost him, this is a disease he was born with and it can be genetic, all pups from that line have been tested and cleared and all subsequent litters from that line have been tested and cleared.

Narla is from Dot & Rocky and has been placed with a keen new breeder, Renaye from Gypsland Victoria. We wish her the best of fortune, and will do all we can to assist her if they need it.

Renaye has become a member of the Koolie Club of Australia.

Charm arrived in 1998, my niece acquired her after she had been mistreated, I originally called obtaining her a rescue meaning from a possible early death, but this statement was maliciously misinterpreted and caused a lot of mischief.

In 2000 she mated with Mojo, both strong colored with minimal white, I felt my chances of having white, deaf/blind pups were greatly reduced. WRONG. The litter was everything I hoped for with pups taller, of medium bone, good sprung chests than the mum who was smaller and finer than I liked. As far as color though it was a learning curve, we had two blacks, two whites which turned yellow as they grew, one the spitting image of his father, two merle males with large proportions of white, one of which was deaf, and one perfect blue merle bitch. All pups of this litter worked even the deaf one. On going DNA investigation of this litter is helping to understand what genes effected the results.

Breeze is a solid blue merle and works sheep, she is quick, smart and a delight to work with. My hopes are we will compete in sheep trials one day.

If only I can learn as fast as Breeze.

Breeze at four years old had her one and only litter, Sire Tjukurpa Kool Sam, like her mother Charm, she produced another learning curve, 3 solid black tri's and 4 blue merles, 2 were deaf and all 4 had lots of whites, back to the drawing board, Breeze has been desexed. Since gaining more knowledge about genetics I realise that finding the right male would have made all the difference, it isn't just about color, though that is a factor, it is also about build, ability and character. Breezes pups have all grown into lovely natured, gentle Koolies and her daughter shows a lot of talent, her two deaf boys demonstrate clearly the pit falls which can and do occur when breeding merle to merle, and breeze is still an excellent worker.

Seal as a baby, pretty cute, not really a great worker, but easily trained and a very willing to please nature. Great Companion

Jet was born May 2000, at six years he is a very good companion, with a loving nature, he loves children and is a very gentle worker.

Jet is a solid black koolie.

Jet caught the eye of a friend and now is living it up as a community pet, where the aged & people who can not have pets, share his great companionship and love.

Panda is from Charm first litter by Mo-Jo, he is owned, trained and loved very much by our daughter Bethany who is currently preparing him for Agility. Panda had the ability but school got in the way of Bethany's ambition to compete with him and so he is now an excellent and well trained companion who sleeps by her bed.

This hunk is from Charms first litter and deaf, not heredity but congenitally, just a fluke, bad luck, he is my best mate and still acts like a pup at six, never been a problem, better than many hearing Koolie.

Silla is from Charm, (solid blue merle) and Mo-Jo's (solid blue merle) joining is 2000, she is now four and due to whelp in April 2004, her litter will be our third generation Koolie.

Silla is a Solid black, joined to Rocky, (Red Merle Tri)she has a very demanding nature and is only truely happy when she is at your side, no matter what your doing. Silla produced three red merle and a black merle, two girls and two boys and excellent litter. Silla's pups are now over 2 years old are all excellent workers on sheep and cattle.

Silla produced her 3 boys 3 girls, 2 merles, 4 solids for her second litter in 2005 and for her third litter in 2006 she produced 6 again 1 girl and five boys, 3 blue merles and 3 solids the sire was a solid black. Solids can carry the merle gene.

Excellent litter the picture says it all, the black merle will be kept to produce Tjukurpa's fourth generation of registered koolie.

A most satisfying result the solid red, red merle and sandy solid are males, and the blue merle, solid black and solid grey are all girls, this litter was our first double mating, using 2 sires, Rockie our Red Merle and Tesskera Yassa Black Merle, instead of the traditional 1, with the availability of DNA testing to match pups to father, this is a good way to strengthen bloodlines without placing too much demand of the bitch to have multiple litters.

In a life time of possibly 6 litters, with double matings you can safely double the amount of bloodlines your bitch can produce. The solids are favoured for safe breeding results and can be used over or with merles or dilutes, with a greater chance of a successful no deaf/blind white pups. The sandy solid male is currently classed as a dilute but we will continue to track his progress as with all Tjukurpa lines. The results of the DNA found that Rocky was the only father of this litter, first in best dressed.

Son of Silla and Rocky, Grizzley was snapped up be Tania of Gippsland, who already owns a Koolie X , she will use Spike in her breeding program and he is already showing her he has the right stuff working her cattle. Due to unforseen circumstances Grizzley (Spike) had to be rehomed and now works cattle full time in country Vic for the Hoey family, their four year old son and Spike are inseparable

Daughter of Silla and Rocky Speckie went to Qld where she is the center of attention with her owner, Richard. Due to unforseen circumstances Speckie was rehomed and now works sheep and cattle for Oakland stud of Victoria

Daughter of Silla and Rocky. Blue will stay with Tjukurpa and help promote the Koolie nature and personality, she shows definite abilities for working sheep and is very confident around them, she will produce Tjukurpa fourth generation of Koolie.

Storm was purchased by Tjukurpa, in the hopes that because her owner had her out droving since she was eight weeks old that she could be trained to sheep trial. But Stormy had her own ideas and was really only ever a follower.

A couple came from QLD to purchase another adult from us, and it was love at first sight. We were so happy that Stormy had found such good people that we gave her to them. In the future Stormy will be used in our breeding program, and Brad & Michelle have since purchased a Red Merle female Tjukurpa Kool Pepper and are equaly happy with her as they have been with Stormy.

Kimba is a very cute ten week old blue merle, Inteligent, quick to please, confident. We have included her in our breeding program, and feel she will only strengthen our Koolie blood lines. Her owner Stuart believes he is the luckiest and has never regreted allowing Sheba as he calls her now, to choose him.

Dusty is a remarkable mum, she has raised seven beautiful pups, who I hope will all have her personality. The main reason for useing Dusty in our breeding program was her charming and winning way, she has no vices in her at all, unless you count wanting to mother her children even when they are weened. Dusty is a delight to be around, she is confident around all things, and loves to please you.

Sadly we mark the passing of Dusty who died peacfully of a heart attack, 2003 we know her daughters and sons will carry on her beautiful nature and inteligence.

This litter of Blue merles were born between the 26th and 27th of December, my Christmas present.

There were 11 puppies in all, we lost 1 female shortly after she was born and one puppy was mummyfied inside of Dusty's tummy, we were lucky not to loose the whole litter.

There are now 6 boys & 3 girls and all are doing well, Dusty's is one great mum.

Indy is our second generation Blue Merle tri Indy was born 26th of December 2002 and we intend to breed her. She has a beautiful nature, like her mother Dusty and her Father, Sam. Indy works sheep

Mack is from our December 2002 litter and will be offered at stud to selected bitches.

Mack has a gentle nature like his father, good stamina and inteligence.

He is a Blue Merle tri.

Snowy is going to be a solid boy when he grows up, also very out going and confident, he runs with our two Dobermann, even after they have stood on him a couple of times, he has heaps of energy and plenty of give, but he also loves to cuddle up to you to go to sleep.

Snowy is from our 2002 blue merle litter, now nearly two years old Snowy has grown into a handsom lad, good companion, intelligent and much loved by his owners John and Robin McDowall of Victoria. They hope to make Snowy available for Stud in 2006

Harry was born December 2002

His owner Richard Szmidel of Victoria is very happy with his boy and we hope that he will allow us to use Harry over Penny in 2005. Harry had to be re-homed due to unforseen circumstance and is now named King and is much loved by a family in Sydney.

Misty is one our three girls from our past litter of blue merles by Dusty and Sam. She is the most out going one, dominant and pushy, which is very good for her, Misty is off the WA to a family of four boys, they should do very well together.

Phionix is the pick of the litter, she shows great confidence and is not easily put off. Dominant, but you have to be when you have four strapping brothers to keep under control.

She is owned by the Ross family in Victoria who take her to Obedience.

Dot has produced her third litter, excellent results. Dot is an excelent mother and loves raising and showing off her pups.

She whelped 14-8-05

Tess was twice the size of her sister at birth, but it didn't take long for Titch to catch up.

Titch was half the size of her sister at birth, and when I found her, she was almost dead with cold and had a dryed up look, as if all her fluids had been sucked out, all her skin had sunken inwards.

Titch lay beside 2 solid red girls who had saddly died, and I thought she was dead at first.

When I picked them up to bury them she made a very small meow noise, I almost dropped her in my suprise.

After much warming on the heat pack and rubbing in the towel, Titch took her first drink and never looked back.

Titch has discovered sheep and shows great interest in them.

She does not become excitable but stands very still and watches them.

She is very quick to respond to command and is very happy to work for you.

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Dot and Rockie's litter

Born from 7:45am till 10:00am on the 17-Dec-2003

Seven beautiful babies, five girls and two boys. Dot had eight in all but two girls died, one was still born and the other died a day later, both were very small, one was a solid red, the other a red merle. No whites in this litter, we are all very happy with their progress, they are very healthy and active. Dot is a good and caring mother, and required very little help from me.